StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 659 Artanis, take them away

"General, Forts 47 and 56 of Tiberus have fallen, and the zerg have blocked the sky. They can't get out."

"Fort 12 has also fallen, and now there are less than 20 forts still standing. The other legions have also been dispersed by the Zerg, and the enemy is dividing and dismembering our army!"

"Damn it, there are too many bugs, we can't kill them all."

On the Iron Justice, the flagship of Imperial Marshal Horace Warfield, officers and staff officers in neat uniforms were circling around the star chart table in front of the bridge.The grim situation in front of them and the continuous bad news could not help but make these battle-tested officers feel dry and dignified.

Not only Tiberus's ground battlefield, but also space is stalemate. Majestic steel battleships are pouring barrage firepower at countless Zerg flying creatures that are used like evil spirits, and the dazzling lasers flicker. Light up the dark universe.

The number of warships in this Tyrannian Empire fleet is quite large. At a glance, there are battlecruisers, Valkyrie frigates, Liberator frigates, Hercules transport ships, scientific ships and other large ships lined up, which can be called momentum. vast.

As the flagship of the Warfield Fleet, the Iron Justice bears the brunt, surrounded by swarms of zerg, like a swarm of wasps that exploded nests, stinging the rising green shield force field, and zerg from time to time Burned to ashes by roaring laser cannons.The Imperial battleships on both sides of the Iron Justice moved closer to the flagship, trying to get rid of the entangled Mutalisks, corrupt flying insects, and flying snakes as much as possible. The naval guns roared and the lights flickered.

The Iron Justice is a heroic battleship of the era of the Hyperion. Its original performance has gradually fallen behind the times, but after many renovations and upgrades, it has reached the level of a Minotaur-class battlecruiser.To this day, the Iron Justice remains Horace Warfield's flagship.

At this moment, Warfield, whose face was already wrinkled and his sideburns were turning white, just quietly stared at the three-dimensional tactical map projected by the holographic image in real time.The radar and supercomputer have uploaded the scanning results to the main console of the star map, and now anyone can see what the red triangle symbols that are far more than the green dots mean.

They were already caught in a sea of ​​swarms, and Warfield and his fleet looked like a drowning man.

Endless and ruthless.

But they couldn't give up on Tiberus and leap away.The system was of little strategic importance, but it became a key gateway to the Tyranid Empire as the Swarm invaded from the northeast of the Koprulu Sector.All the generals of the Imperial High Command suddenly realized that if Tiberus fell, the swarm of tens of billions of insects might drive straight into Keha.

But if they stick to the Tiberus galaxy, this fleet may be surrounded and wiped out here.

Just the number of capital ships, this fleet has more than 200 ships, and more than one-third of the empire's warships are here. The cost of losing such a large fleet is unbearable even for the Tyrannian Empire.

Up to now, the intention of the second-generation master has become obvious.It besieged the Warfield fleet at Tiberus in order to force other fleets of the Tyrannian Empire to come to its aid, and then destroy the imperial fleets that came to reinforce them one by one.

If Warfield gives up Tiberus, Juggernaut will go straight to Keha and take Augustgrad.

No matter what, Tiberus couldn't fall, but Warfield couldn't just sit back and watch the entire fleet die here.

"Send the airborne capsule." Warfield's voice overwhelmed everyone for a moment: "Call Gorgon to support the battlefield. We must guard this planet and never let her fall into the hands of Zerg."

If Tiberus is transformed into a brood world, the future of the Tyranid Empire will be restless.

"General, the number of zerg on Tiberus far exceeds ours. I am afraid that sending more troops will not help." A staff officer said.

"Do you want me to watch those soldiers on the ground die in Tiberus." When Warfield spoke, everyone could see the veins popping up on his forehead.

There are still more than 200 million people on the surface of Tiberus, and more than 100 Imperial Marine Divisions.But if we continue to send more landing troops, it's just a refueling tactic that doesn't see any hope, unless Warfield is convinced that he can win.

There is no way to do this, and in such a war, human lives have to be used to fill the battlefield.

Military orders are like a mountain. Warfield is a veteran general in the imperial army and the first general after Emperor Augustus ascended the throne. Even if he hesitated, his orders were immediately and meticulously executed.

"Where are the other fleets now?" Warfield asked again.

From the holographic projection star map, one can see that the green dot representing one's side is surrounded by dense red dots in the very center, and the flickering icon shows that the front of the Warfield fleet is the famous Lee Vitan Hive, Jormungandr Hive, and Sky Brood.

Only the Skydome Hive is a new large scale hive, its swarm consists entirely of zerg flying creatures, has a large number of swarm leviathans, seems to be created specifically to deal with human and protoss fleets .The current ruler of the Vault of Heaven Nest is still unknown, but it should be an old-fashioned cerebrate or a powerful generation of unknown cerebrates, because the second-generation swarm has never had a precedent for a queen to lead a large swarm.

And beyond the encirclement of the swarm is the Imperial fleet coming from all directions, including Edmund Duke, Jim Raynor, Matt Horner, Mira Han and Alexei Stowe... Cove's fleet and a dozen medium-sized fleets.However, these fleets were also chased and intercepted by the swarms on the way, and it was difficult to reach the Tiberus galaxy for a long time.

The Tyrann Empire has made up its mind to start a decisive battle with the Zerg Swarm, and the Zerg is also the main force. Judging from this posture, Juggernaut is ready to go to war with the Tyrann Empire and the Dharam Protoss , To beat Keha and Sacoolas in one go.

The Imperial High Command responded quickly, and Augustus ordered to mobilize heavy troops in Tiberus and gather all the empire's allies to fight against the main force of the swarm.Because not only did the master not expect that the Purifier Protoss had become the new ally of the Tyranid Empire, he didn't even know their existence.

And Warfield's task is to firmly attract the main force of the swarm until the three main forces of the Tyrann Empire, the Dalam Protoss and the Purifier Protoss arrive to join forces to encircle and wipe out the Tiberus Zerg.

This is a risky move.

Warfield shouldered tremendous pressure, and only he could be entrusted with such an important task by the emperor.

"The closest to Tiberus is the fleet of General Duke and General Raynor, and General Duke's Alpha Squadron is only 7 light-years away from Tiberus, and they will arrive after the next jump." Lieutenant General Gal said .

"It's too slow." Warfield knew that they couldn't hold on for too long, and the Belog and Grund swarms appeared in the Tiberus galaxy.

Speaking of which, Duke's poisonous snake came the fastest.

Barbaric and brutal, Duke had few friends in the Tyranid Navy.If this kind of person deals with you, he will never play tricks behind his back, but he always puts on an arrogant face.

Although Duke is not very likable, the reason why he can stand out among the generals of the Tyrannian Empire is entirely because he only wants to be a high-ranking general from the beginning to the end, not a power minister who reverses the government.In front of the emperor, Duke was clear about his position and knew whom to bow his proud head to.

This vicious poisonous snake didn't seem to know what fear was at all. As long as the emperor gave an order, he would dare to lead the fleet to kill the ruler on a rampage.

Warfield could already imagine Duke's embarrassing face when he first arrived at Tiberus.

"But there is no news from the protoss yet." Lieutenant General Gal said at this time: "We can't deal with so many Zergs alone."

As soon as the words fell, the vanguard of the Tiamat swarm had appeared in the Tiberus galaxy. This is the largest and most powerful hive swarm known so far. The mastermind of the swarm, Dagos, can be described as He is the butler under the command of the two rulers.

"The Protoss of Durham has always kept its word." Warfield waved his hand and said, "There is nothing to worry about."

"A tenth-level Zerg flying creature has been detected. General, it's Leviathan!" Suddenly, a huge space-time channel was in front of the Iron Justice, and an incomparable behemoth appeared in the vortex glowing with blue-black cold light.

The size of this Leviathan is much larger than that of its kind. Even the Iron Justice looks small in front of it. Only the new-style Gorgon is a little bigger than it.

"A Queen Leviathan." Warfield immediately ordered, "Blow it down!"

Following Warfield's order, several Imperial battlecruisers, including the Iron Justice, aimed their guns at the behemoth and fired at the giant. Queen Leviathan's body was covered with a solid chitin carapace. Suddenly the light flickered.

After a bright flash, the Yamato guns of the three Minotaur battlecruisers fired at the same time, and the Leviathan's huge body immediately flashed a dense flame.

But after that, more than a dozen hyperspace channels emerged at the same time, and more Leviathans appeared.

Judging from the flashing gray carapace of these swarm Leviathans, this is the Leviathan of the Sky Vault Nest.Since it first appeared in the human field of vision, the Skydome Hive has been the master of the sky.

Each Leviathan is equivalent to the flagship of the swarm fleet. Not only can they carry huge swarm fighters, but they are also terrifying biological battleships.Unsurprisingly, this is definitely the main force of the swarm.

The situation immediately became more unfavorable. A Minotaur-class battlecruiser found itself sandwiched between two Leviathans in the blink of an eye. By the time the captain reacted, it was already too late.

"Get out of there quickly!" Lieutenant Gall punched the star chart stage, but it didn't help at all.

A horrific scene happened in a blink of an eye, and a large number of dense green fluorescent lights emerged from the bodies of the two Leviathans, bombarding heavily on the shield force field of the battlecruiser.It was an organic anti-air projectile called bile swarm, an astonishingly powerful biological missile, and if it was mixed with blasters, it would be fatal to any human warship.

In just a dozen seconds, the shield of this Minotaur-class battlecruiser was exhausted.

Immediately afterwards, the multiple huge hollow tentacles stretched out by Leviathan even directly pierced the battlecruiser's shield and pierced the armor, and a large number of zerg were frantically pouring into the battleship through the tentacles piercing into the interior of the armor .

By the time other imperial warships arrived, the Minotaur-class battlecruiser had already been grabbed and dragged away by a Leviathan with its tentacles, and the entire battleship shriveled like a squashed tin can.

Regardless of size or destructive power, Leviathan is far above the battlecruiser.Often multiple battlecruisers would have to be marshalled to slay a vicious Leviathan, and most of the time only to inflict serious damage.

When these terrifying behemoths attacked menacingly, the captains of the empire could only bite the bullet and go up.

"Impending contact with an enemy ship!" A siren sounded from the Iron Justice.

As if receiving a certain order, countless different dragons and corrupt flying insects whizzed out from the vesicles in Leviathan's body, like a large black cloud.

At the same time, more imperial battlecruisers have arrived, and a tragic battle is about to break out.

The Iron Justice almost met the huge Queen Leviathan head-on, the shields opened and the artillery roared. Every minute and every second, a large number of zerg died under the fierce firepower of the imperial fleet, but this The numbers are completely negligible for a swarm.On the contrary, as long as human beings lose a battleship, they will be heartbroken.

Warfield realized that the Overmind was determined to wipe out his fleet here.

However, this probably also means that a large number of coalition fleets have begun to encircle the Tiberus galaxy and stir up the surrounding Zergs, forcing them to destroy the Warfield fleet inside.

At this critical juncture, Iron Justice suddenly received an unexpected piece of information.

A protoss templar in armor shining like platinum appeared on the main bridge screen of the Iron Justice, behind which was the broad and bright bridge of the protoss mothership El Shield.

"Human commander, I am the executive officer Artanis, the golden fleet has arrived." His gentle spiritual voice is refreshing:
"Oh, salutations, old General Horace Warfield."

"En Taro Adun, Artanis executive officer, you are here at the right time." Warfield frowned.

The first one to come was the Protoss.

"Today, we will definitely defeat the Zerg here again, and we will avenge our shame," Artanis said.

"General, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we just received a report that Tiberus is about to fall." General Gal said at this time.

"Deploy the transport ship and let the wounded go first," Warfield said immediately.

With protoss on the battlefield, Tiberus can regain it even if he temporarily loses it.

"More than half of the fleet's transport ships have been shot down by the Zerg, and they are simply not enough now." General Gall said with a frown.

"I think we can help you evacuate the wounded on the surface, this is to repay your kindness in the Battle of Aiur." Artanis heard the words and said: "Serandis, order Admiral Yulan to prepare for the shuttle Machines and warp prisms, I have gathered a brave band of templars to join this glorious war."

"Thank you for your help, Executive Officer." Warfield said:

"Artanis, take them away."

(End of this chapter)